Aliens: Colonial Marines is an upcoming first-person shooter based on the Aliens franchise (films, comic books, etc.). Although the game has been in development for some time, rumors were recently swirling around that the game may have been can cancelled.
Shacknews reported that Gearbox, the game’s developer, laid off a bunch of people due to underwhelming sales figures of their latest FPS, Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway. Which, according to Shacknews, debuted at #9 on the NPD Group’s weekly PC sales charts before falling off the following week. The game did not place on the U.S. console sales charts for either September or October (the console versions were released on September 23rd in the U.S.), although Ubisoft partly attributed their strong second quarter sales figures to the game.
Due to this, multiple sources then reported that Aliens: Colonial Marines had been put on hold, at the very least.
Now though, the game’s developer, Randy Pitchford, has cleared things up with the following comment:
“Aliens isn’t canned,” said Pitchford. “We’ve made some transformative changes and yes, that’s meant some talent changes, but that’s not the real story. The true relevance of the story will actually be irrelevant until we release our next game, at which time I hope there will be a lot of interest in what we’ve done that can produce such results.”
Hopefully the game still sees release because it was looking extremely promising.